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BBR pl. 38 Sm 0938 (P425670)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BBR pl. 38 Sm 0938 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425670 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| 7' | Before: a chariot, a haruspex, his eyes. |
| 1' | May a cedar bow to his mouth |
| 13' | Its ritual: The haruspex to the princes |
| 9' | his..., his ears... |
| 11' | ......... |
| 4' | May... ama judge my case. |
| 5' | ... the haruspex to the quay |
| 2' | May he establish his rites for the day. |
| 8' | You set up a censer and place (it) on his neck. |
| 6' | the'strength' is present. |
| 10' | ... as he says to ama |
| 12' | ... speaks 3 times |
| 3' | May he establish a haruspex on the right, and may he say as follows: |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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